So..... Since my last post there has been considerable thought.
One decision has been made and several thoughts are ongoing about longer term stuff.
I have decided that I am not going to wait for this to close down and me be still here! That would make me somewhat sad, wouldn't it?
So at some point soon I will just left click the tab and metaphorically walk away.
Maybe a week; maybe a month, maybe today or tomorrow.
What next?
Does there have to be a what's next? In some way there has to be even if it's nothing and that is the "longer term stuff"
Looking around...... It's wonderful that you can't see what is happening on other social media sites unless you sign up! Yes...... Sarcasm is always one of my strongest suits. So I signed up to MeWe for a look..... and I am not stunned.
In truth I probably wouldn't be stunned by any of them. My impression is this must be what it's like looking out on the landscape after the bomb has dropped!
So...............I may not stay. Probably won't....maybe etc.
There's nobody there, at least nobody I know.
This shutdown is made worse by timing.
After 11 years of living alone I have set up home in a different city with my long term girlfriend so there is lots to be thinking about and adjusting to without this.
Is G+ that important? No but it's just another thing, another adjustment piling in on everything else.
So where to go.... If anywhere is ongoing (and I am open to suggestions.)
Longer term ongoing (and I have hinted at this in a previous post,) is my relationship with Google (Alphabet......Whatever!)
Like Edward Morbius I have been knocking around this internet thingy for a long time (I was reading bulletin board updates from some guy called Tim Berners-Lee:)
I can remember when Dogpile was "the search engine" before Google came along and consigned it to history.
But this may be the point where Google (for me) has gone too far!
I have a couple of nice Gmail accounts with nice account names because (like with the search engine) I was there from the start.
But I'm am beginning to wonder now how safe (read long term) my future with Google is? When will I be left scrambling to rehouse my Gmail account into something that doesn't work for me as well as I am used to?
I have always had a good feeling for Google. Despite the complaints from "those
who know what's best for us."
They have (to me at least) always been fairly open about how they make their money from me and as such I have been happy to make my "deal with the devil,) but now I have begun to wonder.
And this may be the fallout from the closing of this site. The questions
Do I need Google search? Should I be looking for a bolthole for my Gmail account? How much do I actually need Google in my life anymore because I am not sure I can rely on them.
And yes..... Dogpile does still exist!
Look for me on MeWe if you wish but remember......Like Google..... I may not be staying
One decision has been made and several thoughts are ongoing about longer term stuff.
I have decided that I am not going to wait for this to close down and me be still here! That would make me somewhat sad, wouldn't it?
So at some point soon I will just left click the tab and metaphorically walk away.
Maybe a week; maybe a month, maybe today or tomorrow.
What next?
Does there have to be a what's next? In some way there has to be even if it's nothing and that is the "longer term stuff"
Looking around...... It's wonderful that you can't see what is happening on other social media sites unless you sign up! Yes...... Sarcasm is always one of my strongest suits. So I signed up to MeWe for a look..... and I am not stunned.
In truth I probably wouldn't be stunned by any of them. My impression is this must be what it's like looking out on the landscape after the bomb has dropped!
So...............I may not stay. Probably won't....maybe etc.
There's nobody there, at least nobody I know.
This shutdown is made worse by timing.
After 11 years of living alone I have set up home in a different city with my long term girlfriend so there is lots to be thinking about and adjusting to without this.
Is G+ that important? No but it's just another thing, another adjustment piling in on everything else.
So where to go.... If anywhere is ongoing (and I am open to suggestions.)
Longer term ongoing (and I have hinted at this in a previous post,) is my relationship with Google (Alphabet......Whatever!)
Like Edward Morbius I have been knocking around this internet thingy for a long time (I was reading bulletin board updates from some guy called Tim Berners-Lee:)
I can remember when Dogpile was "the search engine" before Google came along and consigned it to history.
But this may be the point where Google (for me) has gone too far!
I have a couple of nice Gmail accounts with nice account names because (like with the search engine) I was there from the start.
But I'm am beginning to wonder now how safe (read long term) my future with Google is? When will I be left scrambling to rehouse my Gmail account into something that doesn't work for me as well as I am used to?
I have always had a good feeling for Google. Despite the complaints from "those
who know what's best for us."
They have (to me at least) always been fairly open about how they make their money from me and as such I have been happy to make my "deal with the devil,) but now I have begun to wonder.
And this may be the fallout from the closing of this site. The questions
Do I need Google search? Should I be looking for a bolthole for my Gmail account? How much do I actually need Google in my life anymore because I am not sure I can rely on them.
And yes..... Dogpile does still exist!
Look for me on MeWe if you wish but remember......Like Google..... I may not be staying
Er -- left-clicking what tab?
ReplyDeleteAnd I'd always thought Yahoo! was "the big search engine" before Google came along.
Steve Vasta I think most peeps understand that a left click brings up options such as “close.” But perhaps you don’t if you didn’t know that before yahoo there was aol and before that dogpile.
ReplyDeleteNext you be asking “what is ‘this Netscape you speak of?”😄
I’m probably jogging too many reluctant memories here. Next I’ll be whittering on about zx81 or BBC model B’s
In my GUI browsers left click selects, middle click closes, and right click brings up the context menu.
ReplyDeleteBTW Lynx FTW.
Mark Pappin that’s all we need:) a flash Harry to muddle the picture🤣
ReplyDeleteI was born in a hole in ‘T road.
Mouse? We used to dream of a mouse
Steve Vasta Altavista was the best search engine before Google came along. Yahoo was never great at Search. Their origin as Yet Another Hierachically Organized Oracle back when they tried to catalog and categorize the web was pretty good, until the growth in content went vertical and they couldn’t keep up.
ReplyDeleteBrian Holt Hawthorne you are of course right. Dogpile was where all the cool kids went as Altavista declined.
ReplyDeleteThanks for that memory.
Mark Pappin And left click on the "x" what happens?
ReplyDeleteBritish Bob I actually had AOL -- I still have it, but via the Webpage -- and I also used Netscape, briefly. But I still don't understand the left-click reference -- not that it particularly matters!
ReplyDeleteBrian Holt Hawthorne One of my first Yahoo! searches was so unproductive that I didn't try another Web search for months! So I know what you mean.
ReplyDeleteI'd never heard of Altavista (or Lycos and such) until later on. I used them all, especially when I was overseas (early '00s), but they weren't around much longer -- got bought out or eaten up.
Steve Vasta Left button on the mouse
ReplyDeleteBritish Bob What’s a mouse?
ReplyDeleteBrian Holt Hawthorne A small rodent used for navigating in the halcyon days or just thrown at the screen in a fit of frustration.
ReplyDeleteOf course this is before the "snowdrop generation took over the internet and quivered about the cruelty to rodents. this is why we now have expensive pencils and touchscreens!